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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: perl compilation problems
Message-ID: <273@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 13:02:12 GMT
References: <240@sdba.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <240@sdba.UUCP> stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes:
>I am having a problem getting perl to compile on my machine.
>The lines of code of interest are:
>
>	for (j = 1; ; ) {
>	    arg[j++] = node[1];
>	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	    if (j >= i) {

My Xenix system (Microsoft C) had the same problem.  Change the offending
line to two lines:

	arg[j] = node[1];
	++j;

"Feeling much better."
-- 
Chip Salzenberg                "chip@ateng.UU.NET" or "codas!ateng!chip"
A T Engineering                My employer may or may not agree with me.
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